This is unsustainable
BREAKING: Microsoft, $MSFT, is offering buyouts to 60,000 workers as part of the company’s efforts to cut costs amid AI adoption, per Bloomberg.
Personnel on select teams in the US, Canada, India, and the UK at a vice president level and below will be eligible.
This reflects ~27% of Microsoft's total workforce.
This is what the web should be about, sharing knowledge!
There are many ways to kill performance in a multithreaded program. My favorite one is false sharing, because you can get 10x performance just by moving some bytes around. So let's look into it.
00:00 - When multiple threads is not even faster
04:23 - CPU L1 cache primer
09:40 - Getting ALL the performance
15:35 - Looking at disassembler
20:29 - How to find cache line address
22:38 - false sharing in disassembly
25:00 - closing words
Just finished Carrie, I really enjoyed it. Mike Flanagan's interpretation and modernization make complete sense. I know he's spoken about another season so I hope we see Abra from Doctor Sleep
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The sunset has its own kind of magic. And she knows how to wield it. 🔥
A little WIP of my new witch
ah man rogue AI roaming the internet slowly destroying everything it comes across. Sounds familiar…
"People have no idea what's coming" Everyone knows what's coming, AI people won't stop telling us every single day! Our jobs will be taken, we will be left with nothing, we will be in a surveillance state.
Been there myself! "When in doubt, hash it out" was instilled into me by teachers in college.
So incredibly excited for this game!
Phantom Blade Zero brings the speed and spectacle of kungfu cinema to life in an epic journey through the world of Kungfupunk.
Get ready to draw your blade.
Pre-load: Oct 27, 10 am Beijing Time / Oct 26, 7 pm PT
Official game launch: Oct 29, 10 am Beijing Time / Oct 28, 7 pm PT
One more thing: the PS5 physical edition arrives in 2027!
Thank you for your patience and for supporting us every step of the way. See you in the Wulin!
I always love reading stuff like this.
I built bbtree, the foundation of databases and filesystems, and the fastest concurrent btree.
Code: github.com/XiangpengHao/bbtr…
Blog post & demo: bbtree.xiangpeng.systems/
I'm sure this is sustainable and won't have long term ramifications at all.
*Kicks can down the road*


















































